Co founders’ relationship. An important factor for start-up success, but unfortunately many keep it unspoken.
Same as investing time and efforts in developing sustainable business model, so you need to invest time, energy and sensitivity in building trusted and aligned co founders’ relationship.
Same as adjusting your product to the market needs, so as the start-up is scaling up, the founders’ relationship needs to grow as well and adjust to the business needs.
There 6 key typical conflicts between co-founders, some of them conscious and some unconscious:
As start-up psychologist, I help many start-ups improving the communication and synergy between the co founders.
Co founders need to learn how to fight and disagree in a positive and constructive way. They need to learn how to talk on the content but also on what’s under the surface: the triggers, the emotions, the personal needs.
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